Should city employees live here?

Requiring city employees to live within the Pueblo city limits is an idea that bubbles up every now and then.

Only 10 years ago, 55 percent of city voters turned away a ballot question on that subject — but 45 percent of voters liked it.

The city charter only mandates that two city employees live in Pueblo: the city manager and the city attorney. Otherwise, city employees have tended to live in the area, both in and outside the city limits.

The Chieftain’s news partner, KRDO NewsChannel 13, reported this week that the situation hasn’t changed much — 55 percent of the city’s roughly 600 workers live outside the city limits.